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Study: Live vaccines safe, effective in pediatric transplant recipients
Most pediatric transplant recipients who received live-attenuated viral vaccines after transplant developed protective antibodies that persisted for up to a year after vaccination with no significant safety events, researchers found.
Normothermic machine perfusion boosts liver transplant outcomes, may expand donor criteria

Normothermic machine perfusion was linked to significant improvements in liver transplant clinical outcomes and reduced hospital resource use, especially among patients who received donation after circulatory death allografts, data show.
Q&A: Surgeon General’s warning exposes public ‘knowledge gap’ of alcohol links to cancer

There are approximately 100,000 alcohol-related cancer cases annually in the U.S. and 20,000 deaths due to alcohol-related cancer, according to an HHS press release.
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Q&A: Dry January trend ‘could be a wake-up call’ on risk for alcohol-related liver disease

Dry January has become an increasingly popular trend in which people abstain from alcohol use for 1 month to reset their health after the holiday season. But, for some, it could be a wake-up call about their struggles with alcohol.
Q&A: First paired liver donation at Mayo a ‘significant first step’ to improving care

The success of Mayo Clinic’s first paired living-donor liver transplantation may pave the way for expanded access and more “timely transplant” for patients in need, Timucin Taner, MD, PhD, told Healio.
MELD 3.0 reduces sex-based disparities in liver transplant access, waitlist outcomes

SAN DIEGO — Waitlist mortality and liver transplant rates for women appear to more closely align with rates for men after the implementation of MELD 3.0, according to late-breaking data presented at The Liver Meeting.
GLP-1RAs confer ‘metabolic benefit,’ lower odds for MASLD after liver transplantation

SAN DIEGO — Patients with diabetes who were prescribed glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists had lower odds of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease after liver transplantation, noted a presenter at The Liver Meeting.
Improving access to ‘healthy food’ may lower risk for post-liver transplant diabetes

PHILADELPHIA — Liver transplant recipients who lived in counties with limited access to healthy food were at higher risk for developing diabetes following transplantation, according to data presented at the ACG Annual Scientific Meeting.
Liver-related mortality increased nearly 20% after COVID-19 pandemic, varied by state

Rates of liver-related mortality increased by 19.1% from 2018 to 2021 and varied “several-fold” between states, underscoring the need for improved access to liver transplantation regardless of location, according to researchers.
Waitlist priority, quality donors tied to better outcomes in pediatric acute liver failure

Over three decades, changes to organ allocation policies were associated with reduced waitlist mortality and increased rates of liver transplant among children with pediatric acute liver failure, according to research in JAMA Surgery.
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